Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, criticizes stringent AI regulations by comparing them to the oppressive typewriter licensing under Romanian dictator Ceausescu, asserting such controls hinder knowledge exchange.
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyArtificial intelligence (AI) has in 2023 quickly eclipsed social media and smartphones as the technology du jour for secular doomsday preachers.Concerns about content-ranking algorithms and “dark patterns” suddenly felt quaint compared to sentient AI exterminating (or displacing) every human on the planet. Mark Zuckerberg, once an unyielding digital titan, now feels like MySpace Tom reigning over an uncool, increasingly irrelevant virtual